U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo will outline a "diplomatic road map" next week that he hopes will convince European and other allies to apply pressure on Iran and force it back to the negotiating table, a senior U.S. official said on Friday, Reuters reported.
Rebuffing appeals from France, Germany and Britain, U.S. President Donald Trump withdrew the United States 10 days ago from a landmark 2015 nuclear deal between Iran and six major powers, saying the agreement did not adequately curb Iran's nuclear ambitions or address Iran's ballistic missile program and what the Trump administration views as its destabilizing role in the region.
In his first foreign policy speech on Monday, Pompeo will call for broad support to address "the totality of Iran's threats," said Brian Hook, senior U.S. policy advisor, adding that Washington is seeking a diplomatic outcome with Iran.
"The goal of our effort is to bring all necessary pressure to bear on Iran to change its behavior and to pursue a new framework that can resolve our concerns," Hook told reporters.
"We very much want to be, to have a kind of uptempo diplomacy, one that's very focused and very determined to achieve our national security objectives," he said, adding: "Our broad approach now that we have been emphasizing is that we need a new, a framework that's going to address the totality of Iran threats."
